USA House Rep. Jason Chaffetz explains why he retired early from his House Rep. work
It's time to 'get off the crazy train': Rep. Jason Chaffetz explains why he's retiring and joining Fox News, http://www.businessinsider.com/jason-chaffetz-retirement-fox-news-contributor-2017-6, 29-Jun-2017 (IST).
USA House of Representatives member Jason Chaffetz (who also held/perhaps still holds important positions in some Congressional committees) explains the challenges of life as a House Rep.
He says that while he is paid "a very handsome salary", his (and family's) home is in Utah (state of USA) and not Washington DC. While in Washington DC, Chaffetz sleeps in a cot in his office! He says that like him, there are dozens of others in USA Congress who cannot afford to have two mortgages besides having kids in college and other expenses. He says that Washington DC is very expensive.
He also indicated that it is very unhealthy to keep flying between Washington DC and his home in Utah every four days. Further, he has to raise about a million dollars a year and so can't go to his home in Utah every weekend. Instead he is flying "all over".
He said that he has stayed 1500 nights away from his family (due to his House Rep. work). [Chaffetz is serving his fifth Congressional term, and is retiring 18 months before the end of the term. I think each Congress Rep. term is two years long.]
Ravi: One of the sad things about democracy is that it is very challenging to become an elected representative of the people. The criticism is fierce and many times unfair and biased. Besides the workload of serving one's constituency well, as well as any further workload taken on at state or country management level, is high and, perhaps worse, quite fuzzy. The moment any major issue happens the focus shifts on to the elected representative responsible for the constituency in which it happened. These aspects will put off many good people who otherwise would have been glad to serve the public. Among the good folks, only the really determined will run for political office in a democracy.
Please note that I have a PUBLICLY NEUTRAL informal-student-observer role in these posts that I put up about USA politics. Of course, as I am an Indian citizen living in India, there is no question of me having voted in USA elections.
[I thank businessinsider.com and have presumed that they will not have any objections to me sharing the above references (mostly paraphrased) from their website on this post which is freely viewable by all, and does not have any financial profit motive whatsoever.]
USA House of Representatives member Jason Chaffetz (who also held/perhaps still holds important positions in some Congressional committees) explains the challenges of life as a House Rep.
He says that while he is paid "a very handsome salary", his (and family's) home is in Utah (state of USA) and not Washington DC. While in Washington DC, Chaffetz sleeps in a cot in his office! He says that like him, there are dozens of others in USA Congress who cannot afford to have two mortgages besides having kids in college and other expenses. He says that Washington DC is very expensive.
He also indicated that it is very unhealthy to keep flying between Washington DC and his home in Utah every four days. Further, he has to raise about a million dollars a year and so can't go to his home in Utah every weekend. Instead he is flying "all over".
He said that he has stayed 1500 nights away from his family (due to his House Rep. work). [Chaffetz is serving his fifth Congressional term, and is retiring 18 months before the end of the term. I think each Congress Rep. term is two years long.]
Ravi: One of the sad things about democracy is that it is very challenging to become an elected representative of the people. The criticism is fierce and many times unfair and biased. Besides the workload of serving one's constituency well, as well as any further workload taken on at state or country management level, is high and, perhaps worse, quite fuzzy. The moment any major issue happens the focus shifts on to the elected representative responsible for the constituency in which it happened. These aspects will put off many good people who otherwise would have been glad to serve the public. Among the good folks, only the really determined will run for political office in a democracy.
Please note that I have a PUBLICLY NEUTRAL informal-student-observer role in these posts that I put up about USA politics. Of course, as I am an Indian citizen living in India, there is no question of me having voted in USA elections.
[I thank businessinsider.com and have presumed that they will not have any objections to me sharing the above references (mostly paraphrased) from their website on this post which is freely viewable by all, and does not have any financial profit motive whatsoever.]
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